The Portland daily press., 1887-01-24
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

Fifty-four head of cattle were lost from
the Quebec during the last voyage to Bristol.
There were % arrests last week, of which
10 were for drunkenness.
The first lecture OF the Eye and Ear In
Urinary course will be given Monday eve
ming, Jan. 30th.
ders for Bosworth Relief Corps assembly
this week.
The Ontario, of the Dominion line, sailed
at 1890 p m. Saturday. She took cargo
valued at SlsS,79O, including 277 cattle.
Forty signatures to a petition for new
lodge of Odd Fellows at Ferry Village have
been obtained.
The Sewall car heater kept Conductor
Jewetts train very comfortable on such
cold day as last Wednesday.
Harry Gribben was coasting on Smith
street Saturday, and, crossing Oxford street,
ran into team, but escaped serious injury.
The Commercial Travellers are talking of
an excursion, with their ladies, to Bar Har-
Dor in July.
Commander-in-chef Farchild, G. A. r.,
will visit the State encampment of the
G. A. r. of Maine at Bath this week.
For the week ending January Sth the
Grand Trunk showed an increase in earn
ings of $37S67.
DR.. Wilson will deliver the second lecture
in his course at the library room in the Me-
chanics' Building this evening.
The adjourned regular meeting of the So
ciety of Natural History will occur this even
ing at 7.30 o'clock
RichOn Haoltr hac a. H. III.
his clergy, in which he instructs them to for
bid the use of flowers at funerals in the
churches under their charge.
Mr.. S. G. Robbins of Boston says that he
has sold his mare Honest Lolita, which won
the races in Phillips and Pennington last
fall, to Mr.. A. Keith of Portland for $1,000.
The seafaring friends and associates at
Rosario of the late Capt Speck of this city
paid his burial expenses, set up handsome
grave stone, and sent $S3 to his family here.
Past Commander j. ID. Williams of
Thatcher Post, G. A. r., will be presented
with an elegant gold Past Commanders
badge this week.
The Maine Central Railroad Company are
working upon the extension of their double
track to Cumberland. A gang of men are
blasting rock beyond Aliens Corner.
Mr. E. r. Dyer's team ran into Mr.. E. e.
Rogers's sleigh, Saturday, Oh Fore street.
The sleighs were damaged, but the men
escaped injury.
Messrs. Bibber & Sawyer have now got a
fifty feet wide, half mile track cleared on the
Back Bay, and next Saturday the owners of
fast horses will speed them there
The mild weather yesterday sent the water
from the melting snow and ice rpshinsss ss,,wn
the railroad tracks on Congress- street Tho
sidewalks We're ia a-71iery bad condition.
As John E. Strong, driver of a Boston &
Maine shifting engine, stepped from his
engine Saturday morning, his feet slipped
and he fell, injuring his leg quite severely.
He was taken to his home on Clark street.
Heath d Smiths ice storm pictures of last
winter were so admired in Manchester, Eng
land, that Mr.. Chadwick, Secretary Of the
Manchester Photographic Society, has Sc
cured from them the negative plate.
The Portland District Ministerial Associa-
tlon VIII hold its sessions at Pine street
church, beginning this evening. There will
be praise and prayer service at O'Clock,
followed by sermon by Rev. w. S. Jones,
Presiding Elder of Portland district.
The total value of exports last week was
$780, 1890, including 96,O96 bushels wheat,
93O,2S4 pounds of bacon, 5,427 barrels of
apples, 563, S32 pounds of cheese, 172.518 feet
of boards. The chief import was 10000
boxes of tin plates.
On the arrival of the Saturday mornings
freight train over the Western division of the
Boston g. Maine railroad, blood, matted hair
and pieces of clothing were found on the
locomotive. The engineer has no knowledge
of striking any one, but it~is- probable that
some unfortunate~as struck by the train.
Ehe R5stCn Herald says: 1.-THE street has
its mind made up for new issue of Maine
Central stock to stockholders at par. With
the old stock at So premium, there would be
nice plum in the shape of rights. The
authorized capital is $4,000 shares, and the
issued capital 36,033 shares"
The Maine Branch of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society of the NJ. E. church will
hold meeting in Pine street church this
afternoon, commencing at 3 O'clock An ad-
dress will be delivered by Rev. Bishop J. NJ.
Walden. All interested in the work of the
Society are invited to attend
W. y. turner has sent from Florence,
Italy, design for soldiers monument
typical OF the Spartan mother who told her
son to return from war with, or on, his shield.
Two figures representing the episode sur
mount the monument. A design by Powers
shows America crushing the serpent of re-
bellion, with the base guarded by four lions.
AT a meeting of the State life insurance
agents, held in this city Saturday, W. H.
Anderson was chairman and V. r. Foss
secretary An adjourned meeting will be
held Friday at p. M, when the constitution
and permanent organization will be reported
by the committee. The name of the new
organization is the Life Insurance Under
writers of Maine"